The public

hearing on a project that could have impacted the entire south side has

been postponed.

Coweta County

officials learned late Tuesday that the rezoning application for a 1,032-acre

site near Interstate 85 was withdrawn by the applicant.

In a one-pragraph

letter to the county, attorney John Stuckey said he was voluntarily pulling

the application for heavy industrial use at the site.

For months,

rumors have flown through Coweta that an automobile maker, perhaps Volkswagen,

wanted to build an assembly plant at the site near Moreland.

In the application

packet for rezoning, Rick Lindsey, acting as attorney for the Camp family,

who owns the property, said the site would be the location of a prominent

international company's manufacturing plant.

The site included

two 250-acre sites that each feature a 2.2-million-sq. ft. manufacturing

facility.

Also planned

for the site were an interior loop road, a 40-acre lake and open wooded

space.

The application

stated that 3,000 jobs would be created and construction costs would be

$500-700 million. Coweta County could be expected to reap between $5 million

and $7 million in property taxes each year.

In his initial

take on the project, planning director Robert Tolleson suggested the county

deny the project.

Tolleson said

the future land use map calls for the site to be light industrial and

said the site also is the location of natural resources important to the

community.

Public information

officer Tom Corker said the applicant did not give any reason for pulling

the application, or when it might be referred back to the commission.